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I used the saw horse deal to support a full sized solid core door for my first drafting table.... Aeons ago.... lol. It was about eight feet wide all done and those doors are over a hundred lbs. LOL upstairs apt... lots of hammering and sawing... Hee hee... ahem but I digress...
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Cynthia I have been puzzling this roof thing over for my own runs. Your run is small.
I only come up with ideas practical or not....
How about slipping PVC pipe over the top of your T posts to extend their height. then make a cross piece overhead attached with ells. You have...
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They probably said eww I wouldnt paint a chicken coop with that..... no accounting for taste.... I actually like the purple and the gold. The green gives me flashbacks... but heck its paint to protect the wood...
(flashbacks are when I worked as a draftsman at US Elevator who...
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My DH said the same thing! Hahaha! Maybe I'll just do violet on the floor, green up the walls and the bright gold in the nests. I'll have to see what it looks like when I start testing. I promise the exterior won't be as colorful, LOL.
Oh you gotta do color. Accent with something...
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Use a mixture 50/50 of the Violet and the green for the floor. That mix will make kind of an odd Greyish brown. Which would go nicely with Chicken poop. LOL. mix up about a quart and you will have more than enough to paint the floor. primed before hand of course. And if you need...
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I believe most people dig down a couple of feet and put wire down there. Thats good for the smaller diggers too. Then there are some that do a lip of sorts around the outside of the run about the same distance. The coyotes start right next to the fence if they really want in and it...
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Ah but a good coat of paint is pretty darned good too.
.... Im doin dirt... heh heh. Though I am thinking of folding under wire and setting those stall mats on top. For the digging critters. Open air coop... desert location different appliction for sure. Nothing BUT...
This would work:
http://www.amazon.com/Bulldog-Rubber-60-Inch-96-Inch-2362-Inch/dp/B000I1O4TY/ref=sr_1_8?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1300837269&sr=1-8
Its five' wide by 8' long You could align one edge along the wall the perches are on.
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